On Thu 2016-01-21 17:59:45 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu 2016-01-21 16:14:30 -0500, jhcha54008 wrote: >> The current version 2.17.2-1 of libfakechroot in jessie is unusable with >> debootstrap >> (#745082). This may be one of the causes of #809410 too. >> >> You may try debirf with fakechroot and libfakechroot version 2.18-1 from >> stretch or >> sid installed. > > I've tried this in the past and it worked for me. I've been meaning to > set up the debirf autobuilder to work that way. > >> Would it make sense to have version 2.18-1 backported to jessie - or >> included in a coming jessie point release ? > > I think getting it in backports at least would be nice, but i dunno > about the getting into a point release. That might not be something > that the release team would be OK with. If you wanted to start with a > backport, that would be a good demonstration, i think.
I've just gone ahead with a fakechroot upload to debian-backports (2.18-1~bpo8+1), which is about as simple as a backport can be. It also works for me on amd64, i'm hoping it will work as well on other architectures. I've published the debian packaging for the fakechroot jessie-backports branch over in my personal vcs space on alioth: git://anonscm.debian.org/git/users/dkg/fakechroot.git (and should be visible in an hour or so at:) https://anonscm.debian.org/git/users/dkg/fakechroot.git i'm happy to use a branch on the main alioth repo if you like, but that'd mean i'd need permissions in scm_fakechroot, which i don't have yet (i've just requested membership in case you want me to do that, Piotr). Regards, --dkg
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